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The Milwaukee Brewers.
Jacob Misiorowski checked another milestone off his personal checklist this past Sunday during a nail-biter of a game against the Minnesota Twins. When Milwaukee Brewers ace Jacob Misiorowski recorded his fifth strikeout in Sunday’s outing against the Minnesota Twins, he etched his name in baseball’s record books. Misiorowski tossed six innings of three-run ball in the Brewers’ 4-3 extra-innings victory over the Minnesota Twins on Sunday. Arguably most notably, though, the hard-throwing righty racked up nine strikeouts in his latest outing, giving him 204 punchouts on the year. In doing so, the 24-year-old became the second-fastest pitcher in MLB history to reach 200 strikeouts in a single season. Even though there are still roughly two months left in the 2026 regular season, Misiorowski is seemingly the current favorite to win this year’s National League Cy Young Award. The flamethrowing righty now has a 1.76 ERA in 22 starts this season, while striking out 204 hitters in 133 innings.
The 24-year-old also currently leads the entire league in ERA and strikeouts. Misiorowski’s career is off to a historically fast start at such a young age. Beyond throwing the fastest pitch in MLB history at 105.5 miles per hour, the 24-year-old’s already breaking franchise records at a relentless pace. He set a Brewers record with eight or more strikeouts in eight consecutive starts and broke the record for most strikeouts in a single month with 57 in May of this season. In Misiorowski’s final start in July, he opened up his outing against the Colorado Rockies with seven straight strikeouts. He also became the first pitcher to record 11 strikeouts and zero hits through four innings in a start since 1969 in that outing.
The Milwaukee Bucks.
Don Nelson, the second-winningest coach in NBA history, a five-time NBA champion as a player and a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, has died, it was announced Sunday. He was 86. In 31 seasons as an NBA head coach with the Milwaukee Bucks, Golden State Warriors (twice), New York Knicks and Dallas Mavericks, Nelson finished with a regular-season record of 1,335-1,063. He retired with the most coaching wins ever, a mark that was broken by the San Antonio Spurs’ Gregg Popovich in March 2022. Nelson made 18 playoff appearances as a coach, finishing with a 75-91 postseason record.
Don Nelson spent 11 seasons running the Milwaukee Bucks. Nelson came to the Bucks as an assistant coach for the 1976-77 season, straight off the end of his playing days. Fifteen games in, Larry Costello was fired, and the job landed in Nelson’s lap. He added general manager duties the following season, which tells you something about how quickly the organization decided he knew what he was doing. In 11 seasons, Nelson’s Bucks made the playoffs nine times. They won seven consecutive Central Division titles. In a decade when Milwaukee was supposed to be a small-market afterthought, the Bucks were the team nobody in the East wanted to see in April. His impact on the Bucks was substantial. Milwaukee has always had a complicated relationship with being overlooked, and Nelson was a coach who won by out-thinking teams with more raw talent and more glamour. Nelson was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2012. In 2025, he received the Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award, presented by the National Basketball Coaches Association. The work he did for the Milwaukee Bucks, the city and basketball will never be forgotten.
The Green Bay Packers.
The Green Bay Packers have started training camp. Javon Hargrave and Chris Brooks made their training camp debuts. Hargrave and Brooks were on the practice field for the first time after missing the first 1½ weeks of training camp with knee and hamstring injuries, respectively. An 11th-year veteran who signed with Green Bay in March, Hargrave missed the final part of the team’s offseason program with what he called “a little flare-up” that caused him to start camp on the physically unable to perform list. Although Hargrave only performed individual drills on Sunday, it felt good to be back in the action again. Brooks can relate.
The third-year running back, who signed an extension with Green Bay in the offseason, opened camp on the non-football injury list after straining his hamstring during the team’s summer break. Brooks isn’t used to being a spectator. He’s played in 34 consecutive games for Green Bay since signing to the Packers’ 53-man roster in September 2024. Brooks’ return comes at a good time for the Packers, who have been without former Pro Bowl running back Josh Jacobs the past week due to a groin injury. Meanwhile, Green Bay is getting closer to 100% on the interior defensive line.
